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Oh, I have a habit of letting myself be lectured on the things I know best. I like to see if they are understood in the same way I understand for there are many ways of knowing the same thing
Alfred de Vigny
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Alfred de Vigny
Age: 66 †
Born: 1797
Born: March 27
Died: 1863
Died: September 17
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Alfred Victor de Vigny
Alfred Victor
comte de Vigny
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What is a great life if not a youthful idea executed by a man of mature years.
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The study of social progress is to-day not less needed in literature than is the analysis of the human heart.
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From this, without doubt, sprang the fable. Man created it thus, because it was not given him to see more than himself and nature, which surrounds him but he created it true with a truth all its own.
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The existence of the soldier, next to capital punishment, is the most grievous vestige of barbarism which survives among men.
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We shall find in our troubled hearts, where discord reigns, two needs which seem at variance, but which merge, as I think, in a common source - the love of the true, and the love of the fabulous.
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But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity.
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Hope is the greatest madness. What can we expect of a world that we enter with the assurance of seeing our fathers and mothers die? A world where, if two beings love each other and give their lives to each other, both can be sure that one will watch the other perish?
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The first among mankind will always be those who make something imperishable out of a sheet of paper, a canvas, a piece of marble, or a few sounds
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No writer, no matter how gifted, immortalizes himself unless he has crystallized into expressive and original phrase the eternal sentiments and yearnings of the human heart.
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Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?
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We live in an age of universal investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements.
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Invisible is real. Souls have their own world.
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One might almost reckon mathematically that, having undergone the double composition of public opinion and of the author, their history reaches us at third hand and is thus separated by two stages from the original fact.
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The human mind, I believe, cares for the True only in the general character of an epoch.
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An army is a nation within a nation, it is one of the vices of courage.
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Fainthearted animals move about in herds. The lion walks alone in the desert. Let the poet always walk thus.
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What is a great life? It is the dreams of youth realised in old age.
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